A competition-defining encounter in the Baywide Cup, will take place at Blake Park when the two unbeaten teams square off on Saturday, with the winner moving a big step towards winning the first piece of Baywide cricket silverware on offer this summer.

The match-up between home side Mount Maunganui and Eves Realty Greerton brings together two teams from different spectrums of Baywide cricket.

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Mount Maunganui has a nucleus of players in skipper Mark Divehall along with Pete Drysdale, Daniel Hill, Dale Swan and Tony Goodin, who have lifted aloft a myriad of Baywide trophies in the last few years.

Two seasons ago they annexed all three Baywide trophies and added the ND Club title for good measure.

In contrast, Greerton won their first major piece of Baywide silverware for nearly three decades, when they won the Williams Cup in the last game of the season.

The revival in the Greerton team fortunes started with the arrival of Tauranga Boys College star all-rounder Brett Hampton three seasons ago.

While Hampton has gone on to earn a Northern Knights contract, a number of Tauranga Boys players have followed him to Pemberton Park.

The latest trio of young guns are Tommy Clout, Elliot Timoti and Cameron Neal, who all played for the Bay of Plenty Development team while playing for Tauranga Boys.

However while the winner from the weekend encounter will be eying up the Baywide trophy, lurking just off the pace in the first past the post competition, is defending champions Element IMF Cadets.

No team in Baywide cricket has won more trophies in the past two decades than the Tauranga Domain based side, which includes nine Williams Cups.

This weekend Cadets host Central at the Tauranga Domain.

While the Rotorua team had an up and down ride in recent seasons, they have a number of players who have the credentials of genuine match winners.

In other Baywide Cup games, Te Puke could have their hands full when East Bay United pay a visit, with the Eastern Bay side having won their last two matches.

Tauranga Boys College are home to BOP Indians, who now have Bay of Plenty batsman Bharat Popli in their ranks.

BOPCA Baywide Cup Draw November 17

Element IMF Cadets v Central, Tauranga Domain; Mount Maunganui v Eves Realty Greerton, Blake1; Te Puke v East Bay United, Te Puke Domain; Tauranga Boys College v BOP Indians, Nicholson Field.